GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 453, 20 March 1909, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

Teheran, March 17

The Persian revolutionaries consist mostly of Caucasian Christians who have been equipped by committees abroad. There are fresh arrivals from the Caucasus daily. Sydney, March 18.

A meeting of the Amalgamated Miners’ Association has endorsed the action of the combined unions over the Junction North settlement.

A stubborn minority fought hard in favour of adopting extreme measures, but was outvoted, Perth, March 18.

In a case against two Italian ice-cream sellers, the Government Analyst gave evidence that samples of the ice-cream contained 15 million microbe organisms to the cubic centimetre.

Some of the organisms would, he added, cause peritonitis. A guinea pig inoculated therewith died in fifteen minutes.

Paris, March 18,

King Edward at Pau, France, watched two successful fights of Mr Wilbur Wright’s aeroplane. Mr Wright’s sister accompanied him on the second trip. In connection with the general strike of French postal, telegraph, and telephone employees as a protest against alleged oppressive, tyrannical regulations, there are said to be three million undelivered letters in France. The strikers have cut the telegraph wires connecting Paris with the provinces. London, March 18.

In the House of Commons, Sir C. B. McLaren, member for Bosworth, calculating that forty million rats in Britain do annual damage to the extent of £1 5,000,000, has introduced a Bill to euable them to be extirpated. The firms of Cadbury Bros., Fry' Company, and Rountree Company, cocoa manufacturers, have decided not to purchase cocoa produced iu the Portuguese Islands of Saint Thome (St. Thomas) and Principe (Princes Island), off French Congo, on the West Coast of Africa, on the ground that it is virtually grown by slaves. The value of the estate of Lo rd Burton, who died in January last, has been provisionally returned at i, 000, 000. The deceased gave directions that his spine and spinal marrow of the neck should be severed before his body was placed in the coffin, and that his heart be placed iu a separate vessel in the coffin. Scrip of the receuty-floated New South Wales loan of ,£1,580,000 at 3 '/> per cent, is quoted at about 3-Sth per cent, discount.